Three Macomb County men convicted of a 2002 drive-by shooting in Adrian are being sent back to Lenawee County Circuit Court for a hearing on an appeal issue involving their trial last year.

A Dec. 3 status conference was set Monday by Judge Margaret M.S. Noe for the first of the three defendants to win a remand order from the Michigan Court of Appeals. On Wednesday, a court panel issued orders remanding the two others for a hearing before Noe.

Twin brothers Paul Edward Daniel and Peter Lamont Daniel, 45, and Leonard Dee McGlown, 46, were found guilty by two separate juries of first-degree murder, conspiracy and firearms charges after a trial in October last year. They were accused of firing a volley of shots from the back of a van into a car stopped at the intersection of Park and College streets in Adrian the night of Feb. 9, 2002.

Killed in the shooting was 20-year-old Marcus Newsom of Adrian. He was reportedly mistaken for a Detroit-area man the Daniel twins were searching for to retaliate for an incident in Macomb County.

A three-judge Appeals Court panel ordered the three remanded for a hearing on their claims that their defense was harmed by security measures taken during the trial.

The orders for all three state the cases are being remanded “so that the trial court shall conduct an evidentiary hearing on defendant-appellant’s claim that he was prejudiced by the use of restraints at trial.”

After a hearing on evidence of the claimed error, the court ordered the defendants will be allowed to file motions for new trials. Judge Noe is to hear the motions and rule on them.

The Daniel twins and McGlown were sentenced to mandatory life prison terms without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder convictions.